linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC V4 04/10] x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke

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Message-ID: <1318500952.19425.4.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:15:52 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Jan Glauber <jang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 04/10] x86/jump_label: drop
 arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:08 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> 
> It is no longer used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c |    6 ------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c b/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> index 3fee346..2ad0298 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
> @@ -42,10 +42,4 @@ void arch_jump_label_transform(struct jump_entry *entry,
>  	put_online_cpus();
>  }
>  
> -void arch_jump_label_text_poke_early(jump_label_t addr)
> -{
> -	text_poke_early((void *)addr, ideal_nops[NOP_ATOMIC5],
> -			JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE);
> -}
> -
>  #endif

This was the (first and) last usage site outside of alternative.c, so at
the very least we should clean up arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h.

However, since stop_machine now works early, is there any reason to keep
text_poke_early() itself? Shouldn't we also convert alternative.c's use
of text_poke_early and simply kill the thing off?
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